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A complete list of title by Donald A. McQuarrieAbout Don McQuarrieDonald A. McQuarrie, pictured herewith his wife Carole, was born in 1937 inLowell, Massachusetts. He obtained all of his degrees in chemistry. He receivedhis B.S. From the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, his M.S.

From Johns Hopkins University, andhis Ph.D. Degree fromthe University of Oregon. Mentor was Professor Terrell Hill, and hisdissertation was entitled “A Theory of Fused Salts, a Stochastic Theory ofChromatography.” After graduation Don started as an Assistant Professor ofChemistry at Michigan State University (1962-1963), and served as a researchscientist at the North American Aviation Science Center (1964-1968). In 1968 Donmoved to Indiana University as a Professor of Chemistry, where at the time hewas the youngest professor in the university. UC Davis recruited him in 1978,where he remained until his retirement in 1994.Don McQuarrie’s research interests were in theoretical chemistry, specificallyin statistical thermodynamics of electrolyte systems and transport throughmembranes, stochastic differential equations, and nonlinear dynamical systems.He authored or co-authored 10 textbooks and 95 scientific papers, and histextbooks were world famous and had had extremely long and enduring publicationruns. For example, his Statistical Mechanics and Statistical Thermodynamicsbooks are still in print after more than forty years and are noted for theirremarkable clarity.

His honors include an NSF Fellowship, a GuggenheimFellowship, a guest Research Fellowship of the Royal Society, and service onboards such as the Editorial Board for the Journal of Physical Chemistry and theGraduate Record Examination Committee.Don McQuarrie was truly a scholar’s scholar. His pedagogy in teaching andwriting was especially apparent as is evidenced by the success of his manytextbooks over the years of his career. His standards for innovation in researchwere high and he mentored his students to achieve the standards he set.Professors enjoyed being the reader on his students’ Ph.D.

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Hewas a constant source for the stimulation of the intellectual life of thechemistry department. He organized special study groups on topics of currenttheoretical interest. Participants were expected to assume responsibility forleading the discussions in round robin fashion and his questions and commentswere penetrating and insightful.

As Emeritus Professor W. Fink recalls, Donregularly posed paradoxes and puzzles for interested parties to resolve and theyinevitably required subtle solutions. When a consensus was arrived at,they often had messages that challenged conventional understanding. Don was oneof those people who brought a fresh perspective untrammeled by bias or prejudiceto every controversy.

Quantum Chemistry 2nd Edition Donald Mcquarrie Chemistry Pdf

He was constantly a fresh breeze blowing through thechemistry department halls.He had an influence on many undergraduate students, some of whom later becamesuccessful scientists. For example, Peter G. Wolynes, Bullard-Welch FoundationProfessor of Science, Professor of Chemistry, Rice University, and a NationalAcademy of Sciences Member, recalls a memorable meeting with Prof. McQuarriewhen he was enrolled in Indiana University’s Northwest campus, and waspursuing a project that involved statistical mechanics to understand stericeffects of SN2 reactions. As Peter recalls, his approach was primitive, and thephysics was wrong-headed, but his organic professor thought it was interestingeven though he couldn’t understand it. He suggested that he should go toBloomington to talk about his ideas with a theoretical chemist – Don McQuarrie.McQuarrie met with him for an hour and even though he pointed out the error inhis approach, he encouraged him to come to Bloomington to finish his degree andkeep working on the project, which he did. While there, he mostly interactedwith Bob Roberts who was an assistant professor, but at Bloomington he wasexposed, as he describes, to an extraordinary group of theorists: McQuarrie,Roberts, Peter Langhoff and John Griffiths (who had come up with the idea of theprion years before).

They were all theorists who respected both rigor andoriginality. Their attitude had a profound effect on him. McQuarrie at that timehad already turned to studying biophysical problems, and as Peter recalls, Donwould push him to work on “the Brain” but he resisted on the basis that thesubject “wasn’t chemistry.” In response, McQuarrie would say, “Itdoesn’t matter what something is called, it just should be great science.”It took Peter many years, as he said to really accept that idea, but eventuallyhe did and it shaped his thinking and his work for the rest of his life.After his retirement, Don continued to work on writing new textbooks andupdating his older ones. He and Professor John Simons wrote a landmarkquantum-first physical chemistry text entitled, “Physical Chemistry, AMolecular Approach” affectionately known to students as the Big Red. Itbecame an international best seller and was translated into five languages.However, Don’s life-long goal was to write a mathematical methods textbook.The writing of “Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers” was alabor of love that was published by University Science Books.

His last work wasa revision of his General Chemistry textbook with Dr. Ethan Gallogly, where heenvisioned a radical change in a standard text. He felt that atomic andmolecular structure must be understood before students could understand thebehavior of molecules.Even during his retirement, he continued to inspire graduate students inmathematical methods to think molecularly.

Countless academics across thecountry have great memories of his teaching and have Don to thank for inspiringthem in their careers.He died in 2009 in Mendocino County,California.Adapted from:McQuarrie's Bookshelf'McQuarrieis a genius.' -Harry Gray, Caltech A complete list of books by Donald A.